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To read or reading is the act of viewing and interpreting posts or other documents; on the IndieWeb, a read post expresses that something has been read, like a book or section thereof. This could serve as a way to share books etc. with followers, or to notify the author of a document that you have read it (if the document can receive webmentions).

IndieWeb Examples

Contents 1 IndieWeb Examples 1.1 gRegor Morrill 1.2 rhiaro 1.3 Tantek 1.4 Ryan Rix 2 Other Examples 2.1 Ryan Barrett 2.2 Amy McLay Paterson 2.3 Christian Weiske 2.4 Erin Jo Richey 3 Brainstorming 3.1 Tom Morris 3.2 Tantek thoughts 3.3 Read Receipts 3.4 Micropub client 4 Silo Examples 4.1 Goodreads 4.1.1 Goodreads to FB 4.2 Facebook 4.3 Twitter 5 Articles 6 See Also

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill is experimenting with posting to-read posts and reading progress check-ins as of 2015-01-25:

• Start: http://gregorlove.com/2015/01/on-page-0-of-309-1/ (created later, backdated)
• In-progress: http://gregorlove.com/2015/01/on-page-46-of-309-1/
• Finished: http://gregorlove.com/2015/02/on-page-309-of-309-1/
• Want to read: http://gregorlove.com/2016/04/want-to-read-a-kim/

Notes:

• Currently using p-page and p-total to indicate progress. The percentage complete can be calculated and graphed from these values.
• Using h-item and u-identifier for the book title. The identifier's href is in the format ISBN:XXXXX.
• Manually POSSE to Goodreads.
• Feedback is welcome, since this may not be the "best" way.

rhiaro

Amy Guy displays read posts since 2015-08-04. These are different to bookmarks, as I expicitly mean bookmarks as to-read or to-read-again. I expect to add notes (content) to read posts in the future, too. Marked up with the made-up microformat u-read-of.

Tantek

Tantek Çelik is experimenting with posting "read" posts as plaintext notes of a specific format, starting with "read ", (smart)quoted name of the work, optionally part of what larger work, "by ", name or @-name of author, punctuation of some sort with additional contextual remarks or commentary. Examples:

• http://tantek.com/2015/360/t4/read-arsebestos-some-remarks-hardcopy

  read “Arsebestos” in “Some Remarks” #hardcopy by @nealstephenson, while lying sideways.

• with book URL/ISBN: http://tantek.com/2015/360/t5/read-slashdot-interview-some-remarks

  read “Slashdot Interview” in “Some Remarks” by @nealstephenson. #hardcopy tantek.com/isbn/0062024442

• “started” with emoji and URL: http://tantek.com/2016/001/t5/started-reading-the-artist-way

  📕 started reading “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. tantek.com/isbn/1585421464

• “finished” with 3rd emoji, URL, Previously: http://tantek.com/2016/002/t1/finished-reading-halo-first-strike

  📘 finished reading “Halo: First Strike” by Eric Nylund, tantek.com/isbn/0345467817.
  Previously: 📕 “Halo: The Fall of Reach” by Eric Nylund, tantek.com/isbn/0345451325.

Will likely only post when I've finished reading a complete "chunk" of a work, a named section or numbered chapter perhaps.

Ryan Rix

Ryan Rix (rrix) has posted Read items on Arcology since it was created, as a way to signal other people that something is worth reading. Read posts are treated identically to regular posts, or notes, but with a URL in the heading and body. Some notes contain a pull quote or comment on the article, which are just shoved in to the e-content like any other post.

Most read items are pointing to blog posts or other online "long reads" though they could also link to books on Amazon or so, as I am doing reading through a book and taking notes as I go.

Other Examples

Other interesting or notable examples of people posting about reading on the web, perhaps lists of books they have read, perhaps on another site but not on a "read" post silo.

As clusters of interesting behavior emerge here, they may be worthy of labeling and their own pages, e.g. "personal library", "owned books", "books to read" etc.

Ryan Barrett

Ryan Barrett keeps a list of books he has read and would like to read:

• https://snarfed.org/books

Amy McLay Paterson

Amy McLay Paterson read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet.

Article: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10634416/reading-list-books

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f6OqC9c9wpZooYW0hip8QtoCwkNjsjbwXHY8hCDbTtU/edit#gid=952505333

Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske keeps a list of books he has read. Markup as h-cite with u-uid for the ISBN.

• http://cweiske.de/books.htm

Erin Jo Richey

Template:erinjo publishes her personal library of books she owns (and has likely read most if not all) on her website:

• http://erinjorichey.com/library/

Brainstorming

Tom Morris

• tommorris.org: book checkin prototype design (screenshot)

Tantek thoughts

Some thoughts from having experimented with a couple of "read" posts (see above).

• text-first design - here's a modest design for the plain text versions of "read" posts (suitable to get started with posting on your own site, and POSSEing to text-primary destinations like Twitter.
  • simple: 📕 read “{name-of-work}” by {name or @-name of author}.
  • chapter/section: 📖 read “{name-number-of-section-chapter}” in “{name-of-work}” by {name or @-name of author}.

The terminating period (.) in each example could be any punctuation, other sentence terminators (!), or a comma(,) indicating commentary afterwards.

• continuing with the design, some optional aspects following the above
  • hashtags, e.g.
    • #hardcopy indicating something was read in physical printed (on paper) form.
  • {URL} to the work itself online, or an online representation of a physical product
  • other commentary
  • terminating with a permashortlink or permashortcitation.

Details of terminology used in text-first design:

read

meaning I started and finished reading it in close temporal proximity

started reading (note Twitter search/usage)

finished reading (haven't used yet, but thinking about)

meaning I started reading this sometime in the past (days, months, years? ago), and just now finished reading it.

in

indicates section/chapter as part of some larger work. any following information (hashtags, URLs) apply to the larger work

by

prefix indicating author information follows, either as an @-name, or Capitalized Full Name

Considering:

• a leading emoji at the start like the musical note for jam posts, e.g.
  • 📕📗📘📙📚📖
• perhaps separate emoji for particular sub-types of read posts, e.g.
  • 📕 started reading / read / finished reading a whole book - good default. when you start you’re about to open the book, and when you finish, you’ve closed the book.
  • 📗 ... a whole book that is second in a series
  • 📘 ... third in a series
  • 📙 ... fourth in a series
  • 📚 ... a trilogy / set of books
  • 📖 read / finished reading a section or chapter of a book, or perhaps just even up to a page number, but have not yet finished the book.
  • ...

Read Receipts

A read post in reply to a message, from one of the recipients of that message, is a read receipt of that message.

Micropub client

There was some discussion about a micropub client for posting books being read/completed: https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-06-09#t1465505870288

Silo Examples

Goodreads

• Goodreads allows you to check-in your reading progress.

Goodreads to FB

Goodreads has a way to cross-post your "read" (and review) posts to your Facebook profile.

(screenshots needed)

Here are the read-post-specific aspects that are interesting - these are all purely textual approximations / wire-frames. Screenshots welcome!

(avatar) Person-Name made progress with a book on Goodreads.
(large photo of book cover)
Name of Book
Just started reading

(avatar) Person-Name made progress with a book on Goodreads.
(large photo of book cover)
Name of Book
On 300 of 416 pages

(avatar) Person-Name reviewed Name of Book on Goodreads.
(small photo of book cover) Name of Book

Specifically the reporting of page # and # of pages total may help inform plain text design brainstorming.

Facebook

• Facebook allows you to choose 'Reading' as an activity and pick a book/article from its drop down, or type in free text, as part of updating your status.

Twitter

Twitter does not have any explicit "reading" activity or post, however people post tweets that resemble "read" posts, e.g.:

• 2016-02-13 https://twitter.com/blithe/status/698605025493266432

  Finished reading Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005IQ2D9W

Articles

Articles about reading on the web:

• 2014-02-14 CNET: News flash: People rarely read before tweeting stories
• 2014-02-14 Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/14/5411934/youre-not-going-to-read-this You're not going to read this / But you'll probably share it anyway. Similar articles that cited this one:
  • 2014-02-14 Time: People Aren’t Actually Reading the Stories They Tweet
• 2013-06-06 Slate: You Won’t Finish This Article / Why people online don’t read to the end.

See Also

• read receipt
• reader
• feed reader
• Twitter